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Amazon.com (Amazon, short for Amazon; NASDAQ: AMZN), is one of the largest online e-commerce companies in the United States, located in Seattle, Washington. It is one of the earliest companies to start operating e-commerce on the web, Amazon was founded in 1994, at the beginning, it only dealt with the business of selling books on the web, but now it expands to a fairly wide range of other products, and it has become the world's online retailer with the largest variety of commodities and the world's second-largest Internet company, under the company's name, it also includes AlexaInternet, a9, lab126, and Internet Movie Database (IMDB), among other subsidiaries.
Amazon and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished, and used merchandise such as books, movies and television, music and games, digital downloads, electronics and computers, home and garden items, toys, baby and children's products, food, apparel, footwear, and jewelry, health and personal care items, sporting and outdoor goods, toys, automotive, and industrial products.
In August 2004, Amazon wholly acquired Joyo.com.On July 18, 2019, Amazon stopped providing seller services to third-party sellers on Amazon.com China.
In July 2021, Jeff Bezos officially stepped down as CEO of Amazon and was succeeded by Andy Jassy.2021 Fortune 500 list #12.